Great Falls tribune., 1887-08-03
PROMINENT VISITORS.
President Hill and High Officials OF
the Manitoba Pay Great Falls
Visit.

the Manitoba Pay Great Falls
Visit.
On Sunday morning at about O'CLOCK
Mr.. James ]. Hill and Mr.. John W. Egan
arrived from Fort Benton. Mr.. Hill had
been able only to remain few hours IN
Fort Benton, where he received q cordial
welcome from leading citizens as well as
the public at large In that city Col.
Broadwater and Major Msginnis, who
lef. here on Saturday, had met MIR. Hill.
About an hour before Mr.. Hills arrival
Messrs. Marvel, Upham and Mr.. Hlil's
sons James n and Louis w. had arrived
from Helena. This was making close
connections. Each party had travelled
from St. Paul by routes which involved
from 100 to 800 miles of staging, and yet
each had arrived at the time expected.
Mr.. Ehrhart was in waiting for his ex-
pected guests and had comfortable quar-
ters reserved for them in his spacious ho-
tel. Messrs. Seims and Fogatsy also ar
rived from Fort Benton.
Despite the fatigue Of each journey the
entire company were up early and the
forenoon Yesterday was largely devoted to
informal greetings. Mr. Hills many
friends were pleased to see him in the
city which he had done so much to ad.
vance, and the members of his railroad
staff we're also accorded a cordial welcome.
The people were also pleased to meet Nr.
Upham, whose long connection with bank
ing in ST. Paul is we'll known here.
In the forenoon business and pleasure
were combined, for our visitors are all men
of affairs and have pressing engagements
which call them elsewhere In order to
see the neighboring country, the coal
mines and the falls, as we'll as the Giant
spring, the visitors accompanied BY Mr.
Paris Gibson and Mr. Sam 81. Nichols set
cut for Sand Coulee, all in carriages ex-
cept James and Louis Hill, who rode all
the way on horseback, and good horse
men the boys proved themselves to be.
AN INTERESTING TRIP.
The sun was warm, but the sky was
cloudy. Nevertheless the country vas
seen to advantage, and the party observed
with satisfaction the varied aspects of the
Sand Coulee rsute-the broad plains, the
lofty hills, the weird formations of the
buttes, the fine stretches of bench-land
and the rivulets, whose course might be
discerned by the abundant vegetation
thereon. Pioneers homes were numer-
Gus, and so were the fences of barbed wire
with an occasional rude gate, which serves
as compromise between an open high
way and fixed enclosure. There were
signs of cultivation all around. The much
abused and distrusted beach-lands pre-
sented fields of waving wheat and oats,
and showed fields also whore the golden
grain was in stubbls and the grass was in
fair way to become nutritious hay.
Among the farms noted during the day
were those Of Mr.. Field, where moving
machine was at work, and Mr.. Phelps,
where there is twenty-acre field OF
wheat, which will afford an abundant
yield without any aid from irrigation. The
rapid settlement of the country around
Great Falls might be discerned in the com
Portable cottages or veritahle log cabin
which dotted the landscape.
IN THE coAL-FIELDs.
In the Sand Coulee coal region the
party were met by Mr. Colin Napier,
who has charge of the mines. and in his
company they visited the tunnels, examin-
ing the coal within aud without. The
ironstone and limestone, which exist at
Sand Coulee in proximity to the coal,
were also examined by Mr.. Hill and the
party with much interest and satisfaction.
Mr.. Hill was as painstaking as any in in
specting the workings aud the veins OF
coal which they disclose. He was we'll
pleased with the progress which has been
made and the scientific manner In which
the carboniferous deposits are being de-
veloped. While returning from the tun
nels the party had the pleasure OF seeing
in advance OF them Col. Breaduater and
Major Maginnis, who had just arrived
from Fort Benton.
THE WONDERFUL SPRING.
The party dined with good appetites rs
the guests Of Mr.. Napier Then the cav
aleade was reformed and proceeded from
the level coulee over the highlands to the
Giant spring, which all viewed with the
| greatest pleasure. The wonderful foun-
tain. which has its moods like the sea and
| is affected by the state Of the atmosphere,
| was seen at its best. Nessrs. MARVEL,